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Show Thelimeand 1 the coconut by University Student Health Service . ) your chromosomes with acid, but if you've been straight for two years, the chances are they've recovered. The test you could get would be done on blood cell chromosomes which don't tell you much about sperm cell chromosomes which in turn don't tell you much about monstrous or deformed fetuses. Frankly, I think I'd skip it there are enough problems prob-lems in marriage anyway without with-out adding conjectural ones. Q. Why am I always so tired? A. A common complaint! And there are a lot of reasons among others are diabetes, chronic infection (e.g. tuberculosis) tubercu-losis) anemia, heart failure, kidney disease, an underactive or overactive thyroid or adrenal gland, etc. These can be diagnosed diag-nosed through a careful physical physi-cal examination and urine and blood tests. Sometimes there is no physical physi-cal problem but rather inadequate inade-quate sleep and time for just relaxing. Many students are carrying a full load and working work-ing a full-time job as well, leaving few hours for sleeping and eating. This can produce fatigue although "overwork" and "vitamin deficiency" are blamed for more than they deserve. de-serve. Most often none of the fore- going is the case. It usually turns out that the tired student is a depressed student. He's simply recognized fatigue as the earliest symptom and has suppressed feelings of sadness, ' despair, inability to sleep or study well, irritability, and so . on. Depression can be a serious condition and can be treated medically and psychologically. , Persistent fatigue should there- ! fore be given respect and checked by a doctor. Q. I had sex last night without with-out any contraception, and I'm scared to death my next period is due in 15 days. I've heard about the "morning-after pill." Is there any such thing? A. It's true, Virginia, there is a morning-after pill and you need it if you're in mid-cycle. It consists of high doses of estrogen es-trogen (a female hormone, not birth-control pills) taken by mouth for four or five days. Start it within 72 hours of intercourse, inter-course, and preferably within 24 hours, and you've probably got a better than 95 percent chance of preventing pregnancy. preg-nancy. The drug seems to promote pro-mote a hostile uterine environment environ-ment in which the egg can't grow. Nausea and vomiting can be unpleasant side-effects of the treatment. So call your doctor fast. If he doesn't know about it, call another. throat required penicillin treatment. treat-ment. Last week I saw a doctor for a terrible sore throat. He took a culture and said it was negative, and all he would give me was aspirin and gargles. What gives? A. You're confusing a strep throat with a severe sore throat. Strep throats are caused by a particular type of streptococcus, a bacterium. They may be severe se-vere or mild. The main reason for treating them with antibiotics anti-biotics is to prevent rheumatic fever and nephritis, potential sequelae. Some of the most painful and worst-looking sore throats are caused by viruses and mono. They don't need antibiotics. an-tibiotics. Got it now? Q. I dropped a lot of acid two or three years ago. Now the girl I plan to marry next month wants me to have a chromosome check first. Where should I go? A. You may have messed up (Your questions about health nd disease are answered in lis weekly column by the Stu-ent Stu-ent Health Service staff. Ad-ress Ad-ress your queries to "The Lime 1 the Coconut," Student Health srvice, University of Utah. You ;ed not sign your name unless ju wish a personal reply in ie event there is insufficient jace to publish in the Chron-.le.) Chron-.le.) Q. The guy I share an apart-ent apart-ent with just came down with ipatitis. Do I need a shot? A. Ordinary garden-variety fectious hepatitis is caused by virus residing in the gut and iiting from the body through e feces. Fecal-oral transmis-jn transmis-jn is the way the disease reads. If you've eaten food epared or served by your ommate or had other close ntact with him, it would be se to get a shot of gamma jbulin. Taken within two ;eks of contact it will reduce -3 severity of the disease and jy prevent its clinical appear-ce appear-ce entirely. If your roommate has serum patitis, generally acquired m a contaminated needle or od transfusion, you're not ining a high risk unless you are needles with each other, serum hepatitis is definitely diagnosis, gamma globulin jnnecessary because it does Je good in preventing this ease. : nfectious mono often causes l; lild hepatitis which is differ-l!; differ-l!; from infectious or serum Patitis. No preventative i:asures are need here either :e mono is not very con-''iious, con-''iious, and you can't do any-Hg any-Hg about it anyway. IT 2 5. A guy I was with a week ago says he's got clap now and I should get checked because I'm his only contact in two months. I had a female examination exami-nation three weeks ago and was O.K. There's been nobody else for three months. I feel fine. Is he pulling my leg? A. It could be a malicious hoax, but I'd be inclined to take him seriously. Try to get his doctor's name, then see if your doctor can confirm the diagnosis. diag-nosis. If it's even possible that your friend has clap or gonorrhea, gonor-rhea, your doctor will probably examine you and obtain a culture cul-ture of the cervix, the neck of the uterus. He will probably treat you even if all the tests are negative, and you have no symptoms, relying on the common com-mon observation that the best test for gonorrhea in a woman is how badly her partner hurts. Q. I've had a pretty active and varied sex life in the last year but have always been very careful in my choice of boy friends. I never worried much about V. D. until my roommate who is a math major, ma-jor, said the risk with each additional partner went up by geometric progression instead of arithmetic progression. If she's right, I may be in trouble. Is she? A. Inasmuch as your boy friends are probably about as careful as you are in how they choose their partners, she's right. That is, each new partner part-ner adds not only his risk factor fac-tor but those of all the other partner's he's had. Keep in mind that two peope can't give each other V. D. without the cooperation of a third party. Q. I always thought a strep |